The Nursing Skills Laboratory Manager serves as the lead laboratory manager for the nursing skills laboratories, identifies evidence-based best practices, educates faculty members on how best to teach the new practices, and teaches students who require additional skills practice. Determines equipment needs, recommends vendors and purchases for the nursing skills laboratories, develops and maintains inventory and inventory control processes, programs and operates high-fidelity human-patient simulators (iStan and Noelle/Baby Hal), oversees OSHA implementation, establishes laboratory utilization schedule, schedules staff assistants, and oversees maintenance and repair of equipment.

Duties & Responsibilities

Supervises student assistants, tutors, custodial personnel or others assigned to assist in the laboratory to assure routine cleaning of physical space and equipment, and to provide an efficient and consistent organizational flow of the day-to-day operations

Continually evaluates current clinical literature in order to extract best-practices to be taught to students

Instructs students when practicing clinical skills in the laboratory or when instructors are not present during open lab hours; works with students who bring in remediation prescription for specific lab skills from clinical instructors

Teaches faculty about current evidence-based practices and the use of human patient simulators; to include but not limited to, Noelle, Baby Hal, Infant, and iStan portables

Participates with faculty to ensure supervision of use of the laboratory, instructs faculty members, and assist faculty with the use of high-fidelity human patient simulators

Oversees maintenance and repair of equipment and obtains requests for new supplies and equipment

Develops and maintains computer program to constantly update system so multiple groups can use the equipment